Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [pron] [noun] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Good , I wish to see the corpse , and after that My Lord Coroner and I would like to speak with all those affected by Sir Ralph 's death . ’ |
| 2 | Least of all his cousin Jessica . |
| 3 | It is a problem which has occupied the minds of those whom Canon Roger Lloyd has dubbed ‘ station saunterers ’ ( ‘ the railway lover counts no time wasted which he spends sauntering on a good station ’ ) . |
| 4 | By the time I arrived at B.P. there was need for many more of those whom Peter Calvocoressi calls the Indians , and the net had been cast wider to trawl the less élite from universities other than Oxford and Cambridge . |
| 5 | The psychology of adolescence was crucial to the enterprise because it offered the possibility , indeed , the likelihood of change ; it was grist to the mill of those whom Peter Clarke has termed ‘ moral ’ as opposed to ‘ mechanist ’ reformers . |
| 6 | Robert Halsband writes : ‘ Mrs. Yearsley was not the first of those whom Robert Southey called ‘ Our Uneducated Poets ’ but she was the first notable woman among them . ’ |
| 7 | In the diary of 1818 his son Hartley 's was 25th May , and was the only entry . |
| 8 | The ‘ homespun ’ view of literature had tended to see literature either as an expression of an author 's personality and world-vision , or as a mimetic ( that is to say , realistic ) representation of the world in which he lived ; or , most typically , as the mixture of both which Catherine Belsey describes as ‘ expressive realism ’ ( 1980 ) . |
| 9 | It 's scenes like these which Ruth Hilali claims to have come to Kurdistan to deal with . |
| 10 | For all his shortcomings Largo Caballero was the only political figure with sufficient standing on the left to have any chance of harnessing the revolution to the cause of victory ; his advocacy of ‘ Workers ’ Alliance' between 1934 and 1936 had helped to dissipate some of the mutual antagonism which had previously soured his relations with the CNT , while his role as the ‘ Spanish Lenin' during 1936 had made possible a close relationship with the Spanish Communist Party . |
| 11 | Yet looking at many young people today , the targets of communication channels unknown to their grandparents , it is hard to believe that for all his showmanship McLuhan was entirely wrong . |
| 12 | But for all his troubles Stephen , an amiable and gallant king , had managed to hold on to England and it took three strange twists of fortune to transform the situation . |
| 13 | Well if you come with me sir , I think it 's gon na be about eighteen years for you mate , said Sergeant Briggs , thanks for all your work Jane , that 's alright Sarge , a quiet weekend that 's all I wanted , some weekend this has turned out to be said Jane |
| 14 | With all her strength Benny Hogan launched herself off the wall down on Maire Carroll . |
| 15 | I got me a surefire , old-fashioned American way of dealin' with all them Bruce Lee fanatics . |
| 16 | I 'd started locking my shirts in a desk drawer every night , except that now I 'd lost the key with all my Ben Shermans in there . |
| 17 | From 1975 to 1979 , Mrs Thatcher was engaged in a process not dissimilar from that which Mr Kinnock now presides over . |
| 18 | Mr Furbank gives an excellent picture of this hand-to-mouth existence , not so different from that which Samuel Johnson was leading in London at the same time . |
| 19 | In this our world God breathed his spirit into the dust of the earth , and matter became articulate and personalised in the forms of man and woman . |
| 20 | In 1757 his daughter Mary married Osgood Hanbury , a great Quaker Chesapeake merchant of London ; in 1767 his other daughter Rachel married David Barclay [ q.v. ] , a leading Quaker merchant , banker , and brewer of London . |
| 21 | Hence the European Parliament 's Committee on Legal Affairs and Citizens ' Rights proposed a comprehensive report on codification in May 1989 , and in 1991 its chairman Graf von Stauffenberg again stressed ‘ the pressing need for proper codification and simplification , and hence greater transparency , of Community law ’ . |
| 22 | The sultanates of Muscat and Zanzibar had recently been separated by the terms of the Canning award , but Majid 's position remained insecure ; in 1859 his half-brothers Thuwayn of Muscat and Barghash , who was to succeed Majid as sultan , attempted to capture Zanzibar . |
| 23 | But in 1607 his friend Agostino Agazzari published the first little treatise on continuo performance , Del suonare sopra il basso con tutti stromenti & uso loro nel conserto , which does explain the use of figures . |
| 24 | In 1610 his son Robert published a collection of foreign and English songs , A Musicall Banquet , including two from Caccini 's Nuove Musiche ; and two of the three by his father — ‘ Far from triumphing court ’ and ‘ In darkness let me dwell ’ ( Dowland 's supreme masterpiece of emotional declamation ) — reveal awareness of the new style . |
| 25 | When he died in 516 his son Sigismund succeeded him , and negotiated with Byzantium for his father 's title . |
| 26 | In all its programmes WACC will encourage full and equal participation of women in public communication . |
| 27 | In all his experience Zen could remember nothing like it . |
| 28 | The nudes owe something to those of Bill Brandt done in the late 1940s and early 50s , but as in all his work Friedlander 's choice of vantage point and his use of irony forces questions on the viewer , rather than supplying answers . |
| 29 | In 1742 her son Richard purchased and occupied the nearby manor of Thorp Mandeville [ Sitwell , 22 ] . |
| 30 | In 1330 his grandson Edward III continued the practice of his forbears and was still giving alms to Fontevrault , the mausoleum of the Angevin dynasty . |